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Episode 211 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 18 - Battle Of The Images 10
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January 20, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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January 28, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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Episode 222 - Revisiting the Relationship Between Happiness and Pleasure 10
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April 3, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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Episode 238 - Cicero's OTNOTG 13 - Velleius Erupts Against Stoic Fate and Supernatural God-Making 10
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July 19, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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Episode 245 - Cicero's OTNOTG 20 - Right, Wrong, Or Incomplete? 10
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September 6, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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Episode Thirty-Nine - The Mind And Spirit Are Not Supernatural But Parts of A Man Just Like The Head and Foot 11
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September 29, 2020 at 6:08 PM
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October 18, 2020 at 12:15 PM
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Episode Sixty-Two - The Perils of Romantic Love (Part 2) 11
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March 12, 2021 at 10:06 AM
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March 24, 2021 at 10:27 PM
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Episode One Hundred Nine - The Epicurean View of Friendship 11
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February 11, 2022 at 7:45 PM
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Episode 207 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 15 - Does Epicurean Philosophy Lead to Injustice? 11
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December 22, 2023 at 5:25 AM
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Episode 217 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 24 - Does Luck Control Whether An Epicurean Is Happy? 11
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March 1, 2024 at 1:22 PM
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Episode 225 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 30 - Cicero Argues That Commitment To Virtue Is A Bar To Pleasure 11
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April 19, 2024 at 9:21 AM
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Episode 242 - Cicero's OTNOTG 17 - Is Truth A Matter Of Logic? 11
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August 17, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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Episode 269 - By Pleasure We Mean The Absence of Pain (All Experience That Is Not Painful) 11
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February 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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February 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Episode 288 - TD18 - Tusculan Disputations Part 3 - "Will The Wise Man Feel Grief Or Other Strong Emotions?" 11
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June 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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July 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Episode 295 - Not Yet Recorded - Review of Plutarch's "Against Colotes" / That Epicurus Makes A Pleasant Life Impossible 11
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August 14, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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August 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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An Epicurean Podcast 12
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July 5, 2019 at 2:49 PM
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July 6, 2019 at 9:17 AM
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Episode Four - Recap of Opening Sections of Book One 12
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January 26, 2020 at 8:53 AM
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July 20, 2021 at 10:01 AM
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Episode One Hundred Eleven - Torquatus Summarizes The Significance of the Epicurus 12
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February 22, 2022 at 10:06 PM
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Episode 189 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 41 - Chapter 15 - Extension, Submergence, & Revival 04 12
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August 20, 2023 at 5:12 PM
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Episode 190 - Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 01 12
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August 28, 2023 at 8:48 PM
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Episode 205 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 13 - Addressing Cicero's Contentions On The Nature of Morailty 12
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December 9, 2023 at 3:42 PM
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Episode 257 - There Is No Necessity To Live Under Necessity - Part 1 12
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November 18, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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Episode 273 - TD03 - Is The Soul Immortal And Death Actually A Good/ 12
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March 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Episode 277 - TD07 - Platonism Says This World Is Darkness But The Next World Is Light - Epicurus Disagrees! 12
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April 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Episode 290 - TD20 - TipToeing Around All Disturbance Is Not Living 12
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July 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Episode One Hundred Forty-Eight - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 04 - True Opinions And False Opinions About Epicurus 13
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November 7, 2022 at 7:04 AM
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Episode 219 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 26 -Cicero Continues His Attack On Epicurus' Position On Pain 13
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March 10, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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Episode 254 - The Skeptic Asks: Does Not Epicurus Undermine Religion As Much As Any Outright Atheist? - Cicero's OTNOTG 29 13
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November 9, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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Episode Sixty-Five - Introducing A New Panelist (Don) and Recapping the Opening of Book Five 14
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March 30, 2021 at 9:33 PM
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Episode Ninety-Six - The Proof That Pleasure (And Not Virtue) Is the Supreme Good 14
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November 10, 2021 at 10:57 AM
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Episode 253 - How The "Riddle Of Epicurus" FIts Into the Epicurean View of The Gods - Cicero's OTNOTG 28 14
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October 27, 2024 at 11:13 AM
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Beyond Stoicism (2025) 20
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August 12, 2025 at 5:54 AM - Epicurus vs. the Stoics (Zeno, Chrysippus, Cleanthes, Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius)
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Immutability of Epicurean school in ancient times 11
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July 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM - Uncategorized Discussion (General)
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Recorded Statements of Metrodorus 11
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July 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM - Hermarchus
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